West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-12-22

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the men of fortune made their wealth i'm that
way. One OF those men, engaged in such un.
righteous acts, that evening the evening OF
The very day when he watered the stock will
ma wharf rat stealing n newspaper from
the basement doorway, aud will go out and
catch the urchin by the collar, and twist the
| collar so tightly the poor fellow cannot say
| that ~ was thirst for knowledge that led him
tighter and tighter, saying: " 1 have been
LOOKING Tor you n long while; you've stole my
paper four or Two times, haven't youi-
you miserable wretch" And then tho old
stock gambler, with n voice they can hear
three blocks, will cry out: police, police."
mat Same man, the evening of the day i'm
| which he watered his stock will kneel
/ with his family i'm prayers and thank
Goj Tor the prosperity OF tho day
t1en kiss his chill lren good night with
an AIR winch seems 10 say; 81 hope you
VIII all grow up to be as cool as your
father Prisons for sins insectile i'm size
| bnt palaces for crimes dromedarian. No
mercy Tor sins animalculo in proportion, but
| great lenicncy for mlsto1on iniluity. A
| poor boy slyly takes from the basket of a
| market woman a choice pear-saving some
one Else from tho choler1--and You smother
J him in tho horrible atmosphere OF Raymond
| Street Jail or New York Tombs. while his
! cousin. who has been skillful enough to steal
| 5000 from the city, you will make him n
candidate for the New York legislature!
Thore is great deal OF uneasines5 and ner-
| NpuSheSS no" among sons people in our
| time TO have gotten unrghteo,is fortunes
| great deal of nervousness about dynamite
| toll them that God will put under their mn
| righteous fortunes something more explosive
.aan dynamite, the earthquake of his omnip-
| otent indignation. IL il time that we learn
IL America that sin is not excusable i'm pro.
| pos ION as 1t declares large dividends and has
/ outrlders in equipage. Many man is riding
! TO Perd ton, position ahead and lackey be-
hind. To steal one copy of n newspaper is
! gnat; TO steal many thousands of dollars is a
| camel. There is many fruitdeaer who would
I not consent to steal n basket of peaches from
/ n nelghbors stall, but who would not scruple
! 10 depresS the fruit market; and rs long as
can remember we have read every summer
! the peach crop of Maryland is n failure and
! py the time tho crop comes IN the misappre.
| hcnslon makes difference OF millions of dol
lars. man who would not steal one peach
basket steals $1,000 peach baskets. Go down
! I'm the summer time into the Mercantile
library, in the reading room, and SEQ the
! newspaper reports of the crops from all parts
| OF the country, and their phraseology is very
much the same, aud the same men wrote
/ them, methodically and UNANIMOUSLY carry
| ing out the huge lying about the grain crop
from year TO year and for score of years
/ After while there will be n 'corner,i i'm
the wheat market and men who Lad
| contempt for n petty theft VIII bur
! glarIZe the wheat bin of a nation and
commit larceny upon the American corn
| crib And some of the men will sit In
| churches and in reformatory institutions try
| ing To strain out the small gnats of scoundrel-
/ ISM, while in their grain elevators and their
storehouses they are fattening huge cames
winch they expect after while 20 swallow
society has TO be entirely reconstructed on
this subject. We are TO find that n sin is in
excusable in proportion as it is great.
know IN our time the tendency is TO charge
| renglous frauds upon good men. They say:
Oh, what class of frauds you have i'm the
| Church OF God in this day. and when an
e ei oil church or a deacon.or minister of
the Gospel, or n superintendent of a Sabbath
| school turns out defaulter what display
neads there are in many of the newspapers
great primer type Five line pica. "Another
Saint Absconde1;n Clerical Scoundrel-
ISM Religion at n Discounts" Shame
on the Churches;' while there are n
thousand scoundres outside To wbere
there is one inside the church and
the mlsbehavior of those who never ses
tue inside or church is so great 10 is enough
To tempt n man TO become a Christian TO set
out OF their company. But in ali circles
religious and irreligious, the tendency is to
excuse SIN in proportion as it is mammoth.
Even John Milton in his Paradise LOST
while he condemns Satan, gives such a grand
description OF him you have hard work to
suppress your admiration. Oh, this strain
ing out OF small sins like gnats and this gulp-
ing down great iniquities like camelsl
This subject does not give the picture of
one or TWO persons but is gallery i'm which
thousands OF people may see their likenesses
ror instance, all those people who, while they
appropriate the money and the treasure of
the public. A man has house to sell and
ne tells his customer it is worth $4,000
Next day the assessor comes around and
the owner says it is worth $1,000 The
government of the United States took
OF the tax from personal income. among
other reasons, because so few people
would tell the truth, and many man with
an income of hundreds of dollars day made
statements which seemed TO imply he was
about 20 be handed over 10 the ovcrseer of
the poor Careful 10 pay their passage from
Liverpool TO New York vet srnu00iipr il,
their Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses from
Earls and a half dozen watches from Geneva.
switzerland, telling the custom. house officers
on the wharf: There is nothing in that
trunk but wearing apparel and putting n
iVedollar gold piece in his hand to puncttate
the statement.
Described in the text are all those who are
particular never to break the law OF gram
mar, and who want all their LANGUAGE nm eIo-
CANT specimen of syntav strainings ont ali
the inaccuracies OF speech with fine sieve of
/ literary criticism, while through their con.
yersation go Islander and innuendo and pro-
tanity aud falsehood larger than whole car
avian OF camels, when they might better
! fracture every law OF the Iangtt,oe
and shock intellectual taste, and better let
every verb seek in vain for its nominative
and every noun Tor its government. and
| every proposition lose its way i'm the sentence
an 1 atjectives and partiCiples and pronouns
get into grand riot worthy Of ths Fourth
Ward on election day, than 20 commit n
moral inaccuracy. Better swallow n thou.
sand gnats than one camel
such persons are also described in the text
who are very much alarmed about the small
faults OF others, and have no alarm about
their own great transgressiOns. There are i'm
every community and every church watch
dogs, who feel called upon to keep their ewes
on others and grJwl. they are fun OF suspi.
cions. They wonder IL that man is not dis.
/ honest; II that man is not unclcan: IN there is
/ not something wrong about tho other man
Ihey are always the first 20 hear Of ANYTHING
/ wrong. Nultures are always the first to sme1
;arrion. They are self app ointed Detectives. /
'aY TINS down as rule wi thout any exception
that those people who have the most faults
themselves are most merciless in their watch
ing Of others From scalp of head 20 sole OF
loot they arc full Of jealousies and hypercriti-
cisms They spend their life in hunting for
Inuskrats and mud Turtles instead Of hunting
Tor Rocky Mountain eagles. always for some.
[ thing mean instead n something grand.
! They look 40 their ncighb0rs' imporfections
through microscope and look 40 their own
. lnporiec'iona through n telescope upside
! down. Twenty faults of their own dou0t hurt
Jnem 80 much as one fault Of somebody else.
heir neiShbors impcrfection8 nre like rnata
sh1 tncy strain them ont their own in1perfec-
Hgis are llks Camels aud they swallow tborn